WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly would be "well-qualified" to run the Department of Homeland Security.Kelly has been floated as a possible replacement for outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. She's leaving to take over the University of California system.

Obama didn't confirm whether he is actively considering nominating Kelly, saying the commissioner "might be very happy where he is." But Obama says if Kelly isn't, he'd want to know about it because Kelly would be well-qualified for the Homeland Security post.

Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York has said he wants Obama to nominate Kelly.

The president spoke in an interview with Univision's affiliate in the New York/New Jersey area.

If you thought Big Brother couldn’t possibly get bigger, and if you thought this Dr. Strangelove era couldn’t possibly get any Strangelovier, welcome to the debate over the next head of the Department of Homeland Security.

In the midst of disclosures about the Obama administration’s sprawling — and likely illegal — national security state, the news today is that current Secretary Janet Napolitano is stepping down and that senior Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer is pushing New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly to fill the position. And predictably, from their green room couches, elite media blowhards are already frantically cheering on a potential Kelly nomination.

Lost in the noise is the fact that in the midst of disclosures about the Obama administration’s sprawling — and potentially illegal — national security state, a Kelly nomination would put a national surveillance apparatus fit for a sci-fi satire in the hands of a comic-book-worthy thug.

Five parts of the police commissioner’s record paint a picture of Kelly that seems almost too cartoonish to be accurate. But, alas, it is Kelly’s undisputed record:

1. Kelly is the man behind New York City’s brutish stop-and-frisk program. According to New York state legislators, Kelly defends the program’s disproportionate targeting of people of color by insisting that it is specifically designed to “instill fear in them.” Read much more on the practice here.

Sorry, each and everyone in congress needs to be recalled and real citizens put in their place. Voting on ObamaCare without reading it is a travesty.

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OBAMA CARE WILL NEVER HAPPEN AND THEY KNOW IT... 47% UNEMPLOYMENT WHO WOULD PAY FOR IT... NOBODY...

OBAMA CARE IS DONE THEY KNOW IT WE KNOW IT..

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It is the catalyst and final say. You think GE would make an commercial, saying Mr. Smith is good, when we all know he is bad. Saying that RFID for humans is on a fast track. Page 1001, A Class II device for the purpose of the 'registry'.

They ain't going to give that up. No matter how much havoc and imprisonment occurs. They welcome it. Seeing that the USA now houses over 1/4 of the worlds prison population and the rest are behind invisible bars.